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Just spotted this on VG247, LucasArts are setting the scene for upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic with a webcomic. Looks like the individual issues are going to be fairly brief, and the art is only so-so, but it’s a cute idea. This kind of extra effort bodes well for the full game, in my mind.

I like it :-), it has some “alien on the earth” vibe to it. I am unsure about the history ( *SPOILER* sith attacking coruscant? is that episode 3 again? ), but everything else seems top noch. Just 1 image, and we know the main character is a emo-jedy girl.

“The story takes place in the Star Wars fictional universe shortly after the establishment of a tenuous peace between the re-emergent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, 300 years after the events of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games and 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films. ”

I think fairly breif was a bit of an overstatement. It takes longer to dig crap out my ears than it was to read this. I think I would appreciate it more when the whole lot is available.
Wouldn’t mind giving the watchmen motion comics a go…anyone seen them already? worth a punt?

man, that end was ridiculous, the most obvious thing to happen if you think about the siths, or enemies in general, they make a peace treaty and then atack you suddenly, people in this far way galaxy are not very smart…i was expecting something different.

“Where is the Jedi Exile? Is SWTOR confirmed to be a continuation of the KOTOR storyline?”
No, there actually will be a KOTOR3, so don’t count on a continuation. They will however, and it’s painfully obvious from the comic, come up with a similar story to what has already been done within the SW universe.

The last page of the first issue especially is painfully bad drawn though. What were they thinking?

– Jedi ,supposedly beings who can see into the future, somehow can’t sense the bad guys are deceiving them and starting a war….AGAIN. [check]
– Capital of a pan-galactic civilization which has mastered faster than light interstellar travel has security level equivalent of a trip-wire tied to a bell. [check]

…Well, if it continues like this BioWare will make the TV tropes website redundant. Other than that, everything you would expect from an Expanded Universe Star Wars story.